Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Scores of Brooks fans later wrote to complain about his treatment on the show.

The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence ( 1997 ) about her childhood, which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.

Brooks wrote " Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late?

Brooks Atkinson for the New York Times wrote, " Although Miss Leigh and Mr. Olivier are handsome young people they hardly act their parts at all.

Richard Brooks wrote his novel whilst he was a Sergeant in the U. S. Marine Corps making training films at Quantico, Virginia and Camp Pendleton, California.

Louise Brooks, who rated an entire chapter in the book, was less impressed: " You brush off Clara Bow ," she wrote to Brownlow, " for some old nothing like Brooks.

Other historical figures and famous people who have lived in Esopus include naturalist John Burroughs, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who founded the American Express Company and wrote “ Taps ” in 1862, and 1904 Democratic nominee for president Alton Brooks Parker, a lawyer and judge, who lost to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt.

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, " As the fast-talking Aaron, Albert Brooks comes very close to stealing Broadcast News.

Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, " Brooks is excellent at taking us inside the world of television, but not terribly good at analyzing it.

Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that what director James Brooks " Manages to do with ( the characters ) as they struggle mightily to connect with one another is funny, painful, beautiful, and basically truthful-a triumph for everyone involved.

His character is loosely based on Mel Brooks who also wrote for Your Show of Shows.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: " After this declaration of ethics, it will be impossible to dismiss Mr Kaufman and Mr Hart as clever jesters with an instinct for the stage.

Swann was obviously based on Flynn, while Benjy Stone is loosely based on both Brooks and Woody Allen, who also wrote for Caesar.

Of her performance in the stage musical, Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times: " Nothing has happened to the shrill little moll whom the town loved in Born Yesterday.

In a 2004 New York Times article, Brooks wrote that ; " There have been hundreds of references ... to Richard Perle's insidious power over administration policy, but I've been told by senior administration officials that he has had no significant meetings with Bush or Cheney since they assumed office.

Creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, prompted by producers Dan Melnick and David Susskind, wrote Get Smart as the comedic answer to the successful 1960s spy television dramas such as The Man from U. N. C. L. E., The Avengers, I Spy and others.

" Modern literary critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote that Lowell's poetry was forgettable: " one read them five times over and still forgot them, as if this excellent verse had been written in water.

The Southern Review was co-founded in 1935 by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Penn Warren who served as U. S. Poet Laureate and wrote the classic novel All the King's Men, and renowned literary critic of the New Criticism school, Cleanth Brooks.

In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote, " Mr. Loesser's lyrics and songs have the same affectionate appreciation of the material as the book, which is funny without being self-conscious or mechanical ".

Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.

Brooks moved into feature film work when he wrote and co-produced the 1979 film Starting Over.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

`` Take a ride on this one '', Brooks Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third sacker grabbed a bat, headed for the plate and bounced a third-inning two-run double off the left-centerfield wall tonight.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

In the " Question and Answer " section of his website, Brooks explains that the " Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese " meal from McDonald's possesses a special " base frequency " and that he thus recommends it as occasional food for beginning breatharians.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Kaye's show lasted one season, but Arden's display of comic talent and timing set the stage for her to be cast in her most well-known role, Madison High School English teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

It was Ball, according to numerous radio historians, who suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball – committed at the time to My Favorite Husband – could not.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is also known for the paper No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.

In 1964, Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years.

In a 2010 interview by Kevin Kelly for an article in Wired Magazine, Brooks was asked " What do you consider your greatest technological achievement?

Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s.

He was the youngest child of Troyal Raymond Brooks, a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen Carroll, a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee.

After spending time in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, Brooks co-wrote the gospel-country-rock hybrid " We Shall Be Free " to express his desire for tolerance.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Unlike Alan Jackson, who refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the press, Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts, although this time his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews with magazines.

To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ...

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer.